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Informazioni sull'operaLogical Family: A Memoir di Armistead Maupin (2017)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Sono memorie piene di tanti episodi divertenti quelle di Armistead Maupin, lo scrittore di "Tales of the City". Ma anche della travagliata relazione con un padre ultra conservatore, che non accetterà mai pienamente la sua omosessualità . Del retroterra culturale degli stati del Sud che si scontrano poi con la grande esperienza di San Francisco. E infine, sono davvero tante le chiavi di lettura che Maupin offre per i suoi "Racconti di San Francisco", e si scopre in particolare che la Lettera alla Madre, scritta da "Tolliver" nella finzione, era davvero indirizzata alla madre, e chiude il libro... ( )
Logical Family, like all of Maupin’s books, is best read quickly, and just once. That’s entertainment. Elenchi di rilievo
Biography & Autobiography.
LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.)
Nonfiction.
HTML: "A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us."â??Neil Gaiman "I fell in love with Maupin's effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read."â??Mary Karr In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Also included is an exclusive conversation between Maupin and bestselling author Neil Gaiman. Armistead Maupin was born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man "on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired." Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor), and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin was the reincarnation of her artistic bachelor cousin, Curtis, to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, Maupin tells of the extraordinary individuals and situations that shaped him into one of the most influential writers of the last century. Maupin recalls his losses and life-changing experiences with humor and unflinching honesty, and brings to life flesh-and-blood characters as endearing and unforgettable as the vivid, fraught men and women who populate his enchanting novels. What emerges is an illuminating portrait of the man who depicted the liberation and evolution of America's queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassionâ??and inspired millions to claim their own li Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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